Everybody’s Business

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has reportedly donated $10,000 to a notorious anti-LGBTI politician. Bezos and his wife Mackenzie donated a combined total of $10,800 to Republican Senator Cory Gardner. They individually donated $5,400 each, which is the maximum amount allowed for individual donors in Colorado. The couple donated to Gardner’s 2020 reelection fund(…)

From the site Business For Trans Equality: We, the undersigned businesses, stand with the millions of people in America who identify as transgender, gender non-binary, or intersex, and call for all such people to be treated with the respect and dignity everyone deserves. We oppose any administrative and legislative efforts to erase transgender protections through(…)

The new owners of OUT Magazine and The Advocate, two major LGBTI publications, allegedly donated money to anti-gay politicians. Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) reports that step brothers Adam Levin and Maxx Abramowitz bought the two publications, under the umbrella of PRIDE Media, back in September. The brothers are the founders of Oreva Capital, a private(…)

Hyatt Hotels has announced they will no longer host hate groups in their spaces. The decision comes after one of their hotels in Virginia hosted an annual conference for an anti-Muslim group. At the Skift Global Forum in New York City on Thursday (27 September), CEO Mark Hoplamazian announced the decision. ‘If a group is primarily focused(…)

Nearly three-quarters of LGBT people have experienced mental health issues because of work, a survey has found. The poll, commissioned by Business in the Community with HR firm Mercer, found 72 percent of LGBT people have experience problems as a result of work. A quarter of LGBT employees (26 percent) said they had hidden their identity at(…)

Facebook has blocked ads containing LGBTI material for being ‘political’. Adverts for everything from a gay fairy tale cabaret in Las Vegas to a Spanish-language social group for Latino men were deemed political by the social media site’s monitors. This is despite none of them containing any form of advocacy or political views, according to(…)

Dating app Grindr today launched its new ‘Kindr’ initiative. The project arrives in response to complaints from some users after experiencing racist, body-shaming or stigmatizing language. Grindr announced Kindr a few weeks ago, but provided scant details as to what the project would entail. Today, it released the first of a series of videos in(…)

Jeff Cobb was denied early boarding (jeffcobb415/twitter) A gay couple has claimed that they were denied early boarding with their daughter—only to see straight parents walk through with children. Jeff Cobb and his husband were flying with Taiwanese airline EVA Air from San Francisco to Thailand on Saturday (September 1) when they were reportedly separated(…)

California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman is calling for a boycott of In-N-Out Burger after the fast-food chain donated $25,000 to the California GOP to boost party coffers ahead of the November election. Bauman called for the boycott of the popular California-based chain via his Twitter account late Wednesday with the following: “Et tu In-N-Out?(…)

Imagine working in the State Department as an openly gay employee in 2015. There were Pride month celebrations featuring senior leadership. Prominent speeches in support of LGBT equality from the secretary. And you enjoyed expanded benefits for your partner thanks to marriage equality. Then Donald Trump came to town. The arrival of Trump and his(…)